Bowel Complaints

Your gut is rumbling, cramping, bloating — or it is blocking. Diarrhoea, constipation, cramps, the feeling that nothing is working properly anymore. The digestion that usually runs in the background is suddenly pushing its way to the foreground. You are having to deal with something you would much rather ignore.

Medically, the gut is a wonder: eight metres of tubing equipped with its own nervous system — the so-called gut brain — containing more nerve cells than your spinal cord. It digests, sorts, absorbs, excretes. It decides what your body may keep and what must go. And precisely this function makes it so eloquent when it is no longer working smoothly.